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The Runchuks PodcastDavid Sklansky on poker, gambling, cheaters, and moreDavid Sklansky is one of the top authorities on the topic of gambling, author of several hugely successful books. He coined several commonly used terms - such as semi-bluff, implied odds, effective odds. Many of the poker theory concepts that David came up with 40 years ago are still relevant in your games today and maybe forever. He has rubbed shoulders with many of the greats in the industry. Poker players, casino owners, businessmen. In this conversation, David shares some great anecdotes from his encounters with Bob Stupak, Steve Wynn, Donald Trump, and many more. And we also talk about...2020-11-134h 05

CarahCast: Podcasts on Technology in the Public SectorScaling DevSecOps Success with Red HatRed Hat’s Transformation Specialist and DevOps Evangelist, Michael Ducy, discusses Red Hat's industry-leading enterprise open source tools for DevSecOps success.2020-07-1710 min

The Goat FarmExploring Mapping and Enterprise Inertia – The Goat Farm – S2E2In this episode of The Goat Farm we are in wonderful Copenhagen, Denmark for Kubecon/CloudNativeCon EU 2018 where we sat down with three guests to talk about organizational inertia and overcoming that inertia. First we talk to Simon Wardley. Simon has long been a prominent figure in the world of Cloud computing, and spends much of his time talking about mapping. We chat with Simon about what mapping is, and he introduces concepts regarding forces at play when technology adoption evolves. Next we talk to Kris Nova of Heptio. Kris is a long time contributor...2018-05-1700 min

The Goat FarmDevOps in a Cloud Native & Serverless World – The Goat Farm – S2E1The Goat Farm is back with what we’re dubbing “Season 2”. In Season 2 we are going to focus on the challenges of inertia in organizations, how organizations are adopting the practices of Cloud Native and Serverless, and the intersection of DevOps and Cloud Native. We start this episode off with a conversation with Joe Beda of Heptio. This conversation was originally recorded in December of 2017 at The Lodge Sports Grille in downtown Seattle. Joe talks about the concept of organizational fit, and how the patterns and practices of DevOps in the past had a hard time mapping to an o...2018-05-0700 min

Arrested DevOpsHot Takes With Charity Majors, Jill Jubinski, and Eric SiglerDefinition of a hot take - “a piece of commentary, typically produced quickly in response to a recent event, whose primary purpose is to attract attention.” Charity Majors (Honeycomb), Jill Jubinski (Fastly), and Eric Sigler (PagerDuty) sit down with Matt to have some fun with a few great DevOps “hot takes” and talk about what everyone is doing wrong. Referenced in this episode: Veteran of the Process Wars by Michael Ducy Crucial Conversations Charity’s tweetstorm about on-call On-Call Doesn’t Have To Suck by Cindy Sridharan The Five Love Languages of DevOps DevOpsDays Chicago 2016...2018-02-2600 min

The Hot AisleThe Hot Aisle – Building Apps in Their Native Habitat with Michael Ducy of Chef – Episode 72Michael Ducy (@mfdii) Director of Product Marketing at Chef (@chef) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about the the launch of Habitat Builder, which enables organizations build, control, and manage its’ apps. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) Work to understand how Chef is helping organizations bridge the […]2017-10-1000 min

The Goat FarmMeasuring Success at Capital One – The Goat Farm – S1E13We all think DevOps is a better way to work, but how can you begin to measure aspects of your DevOps transformation. In this episode we talk to Adam Auerbach and Topo Pal of Capital One, and learn more about the work they are doing. We discuss how their DevOps journey started, how it’s now a CIO mandated journey, and how they build some open source tooling to help them measure the speed at which they are moving. http://media.blubrry.com/thegoatfarm/goatcan.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/the-goat-farm-episode-13.mp3 Download MP3 – iTunes – Stitcher – RSS Show Note...2016-06-1700 min

The Goat FarmDevOps When Startups Become Enterprises – The Goat Farm – S1E12In this episode we talk to Andy Domeier of SPS Commerce. As startups grow into larger companies, they face the same scaling challenges that larger enterprises tend to encounter. Andy gives us his 11 years of experience of watching SPS Commerce grow from a startup to an enterprise, and how they’ve handled these challenges. We also focus on some of the technology SPS using to help scale the people, and scale their technology capabilities. http://media.blubrry.com/thegoatfarm/goatcan.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/the-goat-farm-episode-121.mp3 Download MP3 – iTunes – Stitcher – RSS Show notes: Nathen Harvey – Rugged Enter...2016-05-2000 min

The Goat FarmDevOps at Asurion – The Goat Farm – S1E11Asurion is definitely one of those companies that you didn’t know existed until you needed to use them. Like that time you dropped your phone in the toilet by accident. In this episode, we speak to Jon Klein of Asurion to hear how they’ve started adopting DevOps principles in their work at Asurion. Jon shares with us how they got started, how they are continuing their success, and how they’ve even gotten the attention of their CIO. Jon gives a good picture of what it takes for Operations teams to refine their work internally, to make...2016-03-1900 min

The Goat FarmVendors: Frenemies Or Friends? – The Goat Farm – S1E10In this episode we team up with Arrested DevOps to talk about our experiences working for vendors and being on the customer side of the table. We discuss how modern software sales have changed, especially with the advent of open source, and how vendors are being challenged to provide credible help not just steak dinners & golf games. This was a special co-production with Arrested DevOps. Don’t forget to subscribe to their Enterprise DevOps podcast on iTunes or via RSS! http://media.blubrry.com/thegoatfarm/goatcan.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/the-goat-farm-episode-10.mp3 Download MP3 – iTunes – Stitcher – RSS ...2016-02-1300 min

Arrested DevOpsVendors: Frenemies or Friends? With Michael Ducy of the Goat FarmThis was a special co-production with The Goat Farm. Don’t forget to subscribe to their Enterprise DevOps podcast on iTunes or Stitcher! The Challenger Sale In Less Than 10 Minutes “To Sell Is Human” - by Daniel Pink Value Stream Mapping Check Outs Michael “I’ve discovered that tweeting something inflammatory about Docker will give you a really popular tweet.” Bridget PetFinder.com - searching for that adoptable pet of your dreams Trevor Bryan Fuller co-producing the new Star Trek TV series posh-git Matt git-blame-someone-else New DreamWorks/Netflix Voltron seri...2016-02-1200 min

The Goat FarmDevOps at IBM – The Goat Farm – S1E9How does IBM manage to run web sites for some the World’s largest sporting and television events? With the practices of DevOps of course! In this episode, Ross and Michael talk to Brian O’Connell of IBM. Brian tells us of his journey to DevOps practices through stumbling onto the ideas of Chef and Infrastructure as Code. We talk about the cultural shift required when it comes to who owns delivery of changes and ownership of those changes. Brian also tells us how they leverage the “build, measure, learn” product development loop. The sites Brian an...2015-09-0300 min

The CloudcastThe Cloudcast #208 - Infrastructure as CodeBrian talks with Nathen Harvey (@nathenharvey, Community Manager @chef) about how he became a Community Manager, his passion for DevOps, The Food Fight podcast, the future of configuration management and the best first steps to developing the skills to build infrastructure-as-code at your company. Interested in the Tech Reckoning? Our friend John Troyer (@jtroyer) does an outstanding job building communities. He's hosting an awesome event in Half Moon Bay, CA on Sept.13-14 for IT professionals and leaders that are shaping the future of the industry. You don't want to miss this one! Sign up here! http://signup.te...2015-08-1337 min

The Goat FarmAdrian Cockcroft of Battery Ventures – The Goat Farm – S1E8In this episode we talk to the famous (or infamous) Adrian Cockcroft of Battery Ventures. Adrian is known for his work at Netflix and his work to migrate them to a Cloud first strategy, then before that for his book on Sun performance tuning. Adrian has been doing a lot of work talking to CIOs of large enterprises and helping them understand where ideas such as DevOps, microservices, Cloud are taking the industry. He allows tells us how he is helping CIOs realize how their IT organizations must transform to adopt these new ideas. This episode is al...2015-07-3100 min

The Goat FarmContinuous Improvement at Nordstrom – The Goat Farm – S1E7We are back with a great episode. Ross and I talk to Courtney Kissler and Jason Josephy about Nordstrom’s Continuous Improvements practices. We touch on ideas such as DevOps and Mainframes, Lean principles, the envelope game, and incremental vs disruptive change. http://media.blubrry.com/thegoatfarm/goatcan.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/the-goat-farm-episode-7.mp3 Download MP3 – iTunes – Stitcher – RSS Links from the show: PDCA was mentioned a few times but not defined. Here’s a link to what PDCA is for those unfamiliar with the term. Kata Five Coaching Questions Envelope Game The Innovator’s Dilemma Goats i...2015-06-2500 min

The Goat FarmDevOps at Standard Bank – The Goat Farm – S1E6It’s been awhile since the last episode, but we are back with a bang! In this episode we talk to Standard Bank, the largest bank in Africa, about the challenges they faced in taking a DevOps approach in their organization. Compliance at Velocity was one of the tracks at this year’s ChefConf. Our guest Josef Langerman discusses corporate compliance and the scale of how broad and wide regulations can affect an enterprise’s approach to DevOps, leveraging Agile, and delivering the right solutions for customers/guests. Listen to Josef’s recount of Standard Bank’s journey – including disc...2015-04-2500 min

The Goat FarmRunning Internal Events – The Goat Farm – S1E5A guy in Belgium inspires a bank in the Netherlands to hold an internal DevOps Days. A weekly newsletter in the UK picks up a presentation from that internal event, and a team in Minneapolis, MN is inspired to hold their own event. Internal events are becoming more and more popular in Enterprise IT. Cloud Symposiums, Automation Symposiums, DevOps Leadership Summits, and DevOps Days are all internal events I have participated in this year alone. Ross and I talk to Heather Mickman (Target), Brent Nelson (Target), and Mark Heistek (ING Bank) about the events they have run...2015-03-2500 min

The Goat FarmTaylorism, Hating Agile, and DevOps at CSG – The Goat Farm – S1E4It’s time for another episode of The Goat Farm. On this episode Ross and I talk about: Why do Managers Hate Agile?, Taylorism, hiring and the problems with specialization, and we chat with Scott Prugh about his experiences with DevOps at CSG. We also touch on the idea of running internal conferences to help spread the word of new technologies within the company, and Ross shares his excitement over the wildly successful DevOps Days at Target. Stay tuned for an upcoming episode where we will talk more about running your own events. Download MP3 – iTunes –...2015-03-0600 min

The Goat FarmJonny Wooldridge on Enterprises vs Startups – The Goat Farm – S1E3In this episode Ross and I talk to Jonny Wooldridge, formerly of Marks & Spencer and currently at The Cambridge Satchel Company. We ask Jonny his thoughts on what DevOps is like in an Enterprise vs a Startup, how to jumpstart adoption, how to handle “legacy systems”, and get his thoughts on concepts such as “Pace Layering” and “Bimodal IT”. Ross and I also talk about why the language we use is important when talking about DevOps and DevOps concepts. http://media.blubrry.com/thegoatfarm/goatcan.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/the-goat-farm-episode-3.mp3 Download MP3 – iTunes – Stitcher – RSS Guest Info:...2015-02-2400 min

The Goat FarmDevOps at Target – The Goat Farm – S1E2In this episode of The Goat Farm we talk with Jason Walker and Dan Cundiff of Target Corporation. Jason and Dan have been instrumental in bringing DevOps to Target. Ross and I talk with our guests about the need for DevOps manifestos, the role tooling in DevOps transformations, reward structures in organizations, and hiring for DevOps. http://media.blubrry.com/thegoatfarm/goatcan.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/the-goat-farm-episode-2.mp3 Download MP3 – iTunes – Stitcher – RSS Guest Info: Jason Walker – LinkedIn – Twitter Dan Cundiff – LinkedIn – Twitter 2015-01-3000 min

The Goat FarmWelcome to the Farm – The Goat Farm – S1E1Welcome to the first episode of The Goat Farm. In this episode Ross and I chat about our backgrounds, our thoughts about DevOps, why the world needs another podcast, and DevOps in the Enterprise. If you want to find out how the idea for this podcast came about you can read this post or just listen. http://media.blubrry.com/thegoatfarm/goatcan.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/the-goat-farm-episode-1.mp3 Download MP3 – iTunes – Stitcher – RSS TL;DL: With The Goat Farm Ross and I hope to expand the content around DevOps in the Enterprise, with the specific focus around r...2014-12-1600 min

The CloudcastThe Cloudcast #140 – More DevOps, Less SnowflakesBrian talks with Michael Ducy (Global Partner Evangelist at Chef, @mfdii) about ChefConf, Chef Development Kit, the evolution from AgileOps to DevOps, Enterprise adoption rates, OpenStack vs. CloudStack vs AWS, and a day in the life of a DevOps team. Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (www.nin.com)2014-04-2537 min